Help me welcome Susan from crafterhours with a fabulous tutorial…and a Twilltape.com giveaway! Whoo Hoo!
Hi there EverythingEtsy readers! I’m Susan from crafterhours. Adrianna and I sew and craft and blog about life stuff that (mostly) relates to sewing and crafting. All week we’ve been working on a series called “Twill Tape Week” and we thought it would be a GREAT thing to share with EverythingEtsy readers for two big reasons.
First, twill tape is inexpensive. We’ve had a lot on hand ourselves recently and we’ve found half a bazillion things to do with it. Which is the second big reason you might be interested– it’s so multi-purpose. Make labels, tie packages and gifts, embellish clothing, decorate, make organizers. Print, paint, stamp, draw and sew on it. Juuuust a few of many directions. And… here’s one direction in particular:
Drawstring bags are one of the things we’ve been making lately. Bags for function, bags for fun. And what makes them extra fun? A peeking window. For showing your friends what you’ve got stashed. And also, admittedly, for mom. Because as a mom I really don’t enjoy opening a random bag to find, oh, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from a week ago. Or looking eeeeverywhere for a favorite toy and giving up, getting through the crying spell with toddler over it only to find it the next day, hiding.
Since these bags have windows, you’ll want to line them with a cute fabric. Want to make one yourself? Easy enough. All you need is: – Two pieces of coordinating fabric: 10″ x 18″ – One strip of fabric: 3″ x 20″ – A piece of vinyl (from the craft store or repurposed from packaging) – Two grommets (optional) – about 36″ of twill tape
First fold your 3″ strip in half and press. Place your grommets (or buttonholes would work just as well if you don’t have or want to use grommets) at about 5″ in from one end. This will eventually be the front center of your drawstring top.
Cut your “window”. I chose to cut my vinyl window in a circle shape. You can trace any simple shape and cut it out.
Place your larger pieces of fabric right-sides together. Stitch.
Fold the fabric you want to line the bag around the edge so that you have a contrast band showing. Press.
On the opposite end, which will now stick out a little, fold the edge twice so that it rolls over the lining fabric. Stitch.
Fold your bag with the lining fabric facing like a book that’s closed so that you can decide on your window placement. Place the vinyl window where you’d like it to be on the bag, keeping seam allowances in mind. You don’t want to be too close to an edge. Open the “book” and stitch. Here you’ll want to do your best to keep the vinyl and the fabric from shifting much. You can tape it in place before stitching if you like and remove the tape when you’re done.
Trim away the center from the inside, leaving a border of 1/2″ or so.
Make some small snips all the way around almost to the line you’ve just stitched.
Fold those bits of fringe back as you stitch around your shape again with a decorative stitch. Here I used a contrasting thread.
The back will look like this. I kind of wish it was the front! Maybe the next one…
Now line up your two edges so that they overlap and make a tube. Pin the edges together without catching the back side in your pinning.
Now… this is possibly the trickiest part. You’re going to topstitch the edge of the tube. It requires some wriggling. When you reach the end of the wriggling process it looks like this, which looks like laproscopic surgery to me. But no certifications are required. Phew.
Shake that out. Stop and admire. Here’s where we are so far.
Press the edge opposite the grommets 1/4″.
Pin in place like so. Grommets on top, right sides together. Stitch.
Flip the casing around and pin on the inside. Topstitch from the outside.
Stitch across the bottom.
Clip the corners a bit.
Turn it inside out and stitch just inside the first seam. This is a French seam. No exposed raggedy edges anywhere in this bag. Weeee.
Very nearly done. Now we use a safety pin and pull our twill tape through. Safety pin doesn’t fit? You can squish it a bit with pliers. Or… your teeth. While the little ones are NOT LOOKING.
You can finish the ends of your twill tape by tying little knots, or you can stitch some decorative scraps on. Buttons would be cool too.
Ta da! No, that’s not enough. TAAA DAAAAA! There, that feels better.
Ready for action. Time to fill ‘er up and hit the road. C’mon peanut butter and jelly. I’m not scared.
Thanks, EverythingEtsy readers for strolling through this project with us! And check out the others on
our blog any time you like. Hey, are you thinking that you need some twill tape? Kim has something you could really, really get excited about!
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Thanks Susan! What a fun project and a great tutorial!
Be sure to visit Crafterhours for more Twilltape ideas and inspiration!
Here’s how to win a $25.00 gift certificate and one yard of custom printed twill tape:…
- Visit Twilltape.com and leave a comment here telling us what custom design you would print on your tape. (You can change your mind later!) {1 entry}
- If you spread the word by Twitter, Facebook, or blog post…leave a comment for each. {1 entry each}
- If you subscribe to Everything Etsy or Crafterhours blog, follow me on Twitter, or you’re a fan of our Facebook page…leave a comment for each. {1 entry each}
You have a lot of extra ways to win, but you have to do the first one to qualify.
**This giveaway has ended. Thanks for all your comments. The lucky winner is Jessica! Congratulations!
This giveaway ends April 22nd…good luck!
~Kim
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I would have printed one of my 2 fave sayings:
“a big handbag makes your butt look smaller”
or
“cupcakes make your belly giggle”
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love it – will have to make! i would have my kids names put on the tape:)
I would have printed “Sugar. Spice & Everything Nice” since I have 3 girls…
Choice number 2 “Handmade Sweets”.
Thanks! Hope I win, I LOOOOVVVVEEE twill tape!
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i would get ‘made by ba’ tape.
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Oohhh… I think I would make tags to sew into my projects with it.
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I would have it say something like:
Live Laugh Love
or
Laughter and Giggles
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I love the twill tape, I think I would definitely have to make some with my kids names on it. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I think I would print my daughter’s name over and over on the custom tape- then I could use that for the “tag in the back” of her clothes I make so she knows where the back is!
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Such a cute idea!
Way too cute! I love them.
I am now a blog follower.
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I think it would be fun to get my kids’ names on twill tape.. and some sort of cute thing with it.. robot, owl, heart…
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My girlie loves everything colourful and also the song “you can sing a rainbow”. I’d get the lyrics to that printed on the tape and borrow your idea of hemming the bottom of a (rainbow-y) skirt with it. Thanks for the chance!
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I would probably get ‘Made By Mommy’ printed on mine so I could make tags to put in my kid’s clothes!
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I’m pretty vain, so I’d probably get Just Jingle printed on it! HA! No…really, I would get that though, for when I send out cutely packaged stuff! jinglesells at gmail dot com
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Love the bag. So cute!
I would have my tyke’s name printed. She has a very unusual name, so it’d be nice to have some personalized tags just for her.
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Just became a follower of crafterhours (I’ve been reading it for months, there’s been a button on my menu bar but I hadn’t formally followed until now. Oops!)
ohhhh and now I’m a facebook fan, too! lol
I’m a facebook fan!
I follow on the blog!
For the custom tape, I would do my business logo, to use as tags…would be so much better than the tags I use now!
I follow both blogs!
Love the little bag. It’s just darling. If I won the twill tape, and I just adore it, I would probably print my dauther’s full name and sew it along the bottom of skirts or use it for shoulder straps on dresses.
So cute!
I would get ‘Made by Lizzy’ custom printed so that I could use it for tags to go on the things I make.
I would probably make mine with my name on it so I could put it on my projects I make.
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I follow the funny girls at crafterhours. They have such cute projects.
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Love twill tape!! I would probably use it for tags for the items I create or have a quote of some kind put on there.
I’ve been looking for a great supplier lately and this seems like a great one. Thanks for sharing!
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I would put my girls’ names on it.
And I follow your blog
I’d put my store name ” MaddyMaze Studio” on it.
i would put “handmade my katie” to tag my homemade nightgowns.
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I’d probably put my Blog/Etsy store name on it… A Crafty Escape. Love the look of twilltape!
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I would get some labels printed with clothing sizes…that way I wouldn’t forget what size I’d made something in!
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I’d probably want my shop name on it: ‘Hand Made By Annabelle’! I know, too original, huh?
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i would probably put my shop name on it…
but may think about putting butterflies and ladybugs on it for my girlies 
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I think that I would print my shop name, ccooperdesigns
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By the way, I love your peeking bag tutorial
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‘Handmade Sweets’ looks great!
a gift with strings attached would be cute to seal brown paper packages tied up with string! and the plain colors would be PREFECT for making a fabric pennant banner with!!
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we really want to win – oh, the projects we could try and post about with this fun tape!
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I love the alphabet tape. Such a neat idea.
I would get tape with lighthouses on it.
Those peep bags would make cute To/From tags for Christmas. Bigger bags as treat bags.
Ok – that bag is super-duper CUTE!!!! If I had the printable twill tape, I would put my pinwheel graphic on it of course!
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I guess mine would have to say either “Live Laugh Love” or “Who Can Say if I Have Been Changed Forever but Because I Knew You, I Have Been Changed for Good” or “Yes, well I am polarmarized tree sap, and you are an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, and returns in its original trajectory, and adheres to you.”
With I would probably create a purse or maybe even a little bag for my kindle or my knitting.
I love the handmade sweets
I would LOVE twill tape with kazoos!
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Following Crafterhours. What great tutorials!
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Love the bag! That is so adorable. If only I could sew.
The twill tape is so cool! I would probably incorporate it into a cute bow or clippie somehow. Maybe with a sweet quote. Or a headband. So many possibilities!
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great tutorial! I would have “sprinkle wishes wherever you go” printed on twilltape
I would love to get a saying that only my son and I know;}
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First, I love, love, love the bag. Who knew a burlap sack could be so adorable.
I’m a longtime follwer of Crafterhours and want me some of that twill tape.
I’d probably print “Made By” or the names of my boys so I could sew in into tags for clothes.
My favorite though is the big, fat, 1.25 in. twill tape. So, so many things I could do with that.
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I’m also a Facebook follower.
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And now I’m a follower of Everything Etsy. I can’t wait to explore your site more.
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Great giveaway – I am a follower of both blogs!
As for twill tape guy, my twill tape would say, “in an old house in Paris, covered with vines”
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I have been loving all the twill tape ideas!! What to have printed? Hmmmm … I think either my surname or maybe “be as you are”. First time visiting Everything Etsy … off to check it out. Thanks!
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Very cute idea, and great job with the tutorial. BTW, I love design/setup of your blog.
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I would get my sewing business name imprinted on the 3/4 inch twill tape. Way cool.
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oh this is such a cute idea… I can see these as part of my xmas sewing stash!
I would love to get some twill tape that says “this is the back” so I could sew them in the back of my son’s boxers that I make him… he is forever asking which side is the back!
I would get a tape with Made by M in M Creations, the name of my craft “company.”
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Such fun! I love this twill tape.
Bliss or gracefully waiting would have to go on mine!!
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I love twill tape. I currently use it to make labels for bags made out of felted wool sweaters. I would love to win some with my logo on them!!!!
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oh my! What wouldn’t I want printed on them? I guess I will go with my name, blog link and my swap-bot user name so I can use them to attach to all the handmade stuff I made for my swaps!
and I’ve subscribed to both blogs!
definitely some “made by” for projects…or maybe the kiddos’ names.
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I would put my shop name on it, one more step to getting that whole banding thing going!
Hmm,not sure,maybe Happy birthday and Made by mom.
On the twill tape? My name, for sure. Even the bags, pen cases, baskets and stuff that I MAKE gets sticky-fingered from my office. Usually I find it in a coworkers cube and they try and play it off, like they had the same lunch bag or something, even though I MADE IT and clearly know it was mine.
So, I’m a bit bitter about it. But, my name. So that there would be NO questions
I would have “live, love, laugh” printed on the Custom Twill Tape in blue. This would look great as a trim on anything!
I would make “Made by Camille” labels for my kids clothes!
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I love these! I would have a tape made with little turquoise and red stripes alternating with yellow butterflies.
Oh, so cute! I would have the name of my Etsy shop–Betty and Dot–printed on it for sure! Love it…thanks so much!
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I would love to get “YGWYGAYDGU” (our family motto) printed! This is such an awesome idea and I can think of so many uses for it! Thanks!
I’m newly engaged, so I would have twill tape printed with our names – Tina & Kraig- and use it for my various planned DIY projects for the wedding!
I’m loving this twill tape info.
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love the bag! i have a bunch of plastic and now i know what i am going to do with it. who knew twill tape came in sooooo many colors!
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Well since I already use Twill tape in the cycling caps I make I would put my Urban Cycling logo on it.
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I would print a yellowjack tag for my projects!
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Wow, this is too cute! Great idea!!
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What a great idea! I would probably get stitched by me on the custom tape. In hot pink…with black.
Thanks!
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I would either put ” you are my sunshine” with a sun in between each quote this is an enduring song we sing to our daughter often or “jelly bean” with a jelly bean pic. since I call my sweet Bella my jelly welly bean sometimes : ).
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I like the “a gift with strings attached”.
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I would have it printed with ‘Help, I ‘ve lost my stuff!’ ‘cos with 2 preschoolers that happens alot, maybe we should have their names printed on it too!!